Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:Have to meet up this afternoon with the builders, aparrently they're ready to start with the earthquake repairs to our house which is close to $100k now. Presuming that we'll be moving out for 6-8 weeks while it all gets fixed up, but I'm hoping I can keep the training regular and uninterrupted.

So I'm just going to work a half day at the store today, looking forward to hitting some upper body later this afternoon

Damn, sorry to hear that! Is this from a recent quake or something a while back? It seems New Zealand gets a lot of quakes, similar to here in California. Glad you and yours are alright, though!

asparagus wrote:Damn, sorry to hear that! Is this from a recent quake or something a while back? It seems New Zealand gets a lot of quakes, similar to here in California. Glad you and yours are alright, though!

We had our major one (luckily at 4.30am) a few years back, was a magnitude 7.1 and amazingly nobody was killed. Then we had one fairly recently in February where around 185 people died, I lost about 20 of my work colleagues as the building where I used to record my TV spot every week collapsed. That quake happened a day before I was due to go on, I've had to deal with a lot of guilty emotions, then the grief with the loss of my friends. I'm good now though, will be nice to get the house all fixed up after all this time

That was then, this is now and thankfully time is a great healer. Onwards and upwards.